[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 112 (Friday, June 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 34089]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14362]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-3322-EM; Docket ID FEMA-2011-0001]
Louisiana; Emergency and Related Determinations
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an
emergency for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-3322-EM), dated May 6, 2011,
and related determinations.
DATES: Effective Date: May 6, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Miller, Office of Response and
Recovery, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-3886.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter
dated May 6, 2011, the President issued an emergency declaration under
the authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5208 (the Stafford Act), as follows:
I have determined that the emergency conditions in certain areas
of the State of Louisiana resulting from flooding beginning on April
25, 2011, and continuing, are of sufficient severity and magnitude
to warrant an emergency declaration under the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.
(``the Stafford Act''). Therefore, I declare that such an emergency
exists in the State of Louisiana.
You are authorized to provide appropriate assistance for
required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the
Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public
health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a
catastrophe in the designated areas. Specifically, you are
authorized to provide assistance emergency protective measures
(Category B), limited to direct Federal assistance, under the Public
Assistance program. This assistance excludes regular time costs for
subgrantees' regular employees.
Consistent with the requirement that Federal assistance is
supplemental, any Federal funds provided under the Stafford Act for
Public Assistance will be limited to 75 percent of the total
eligible costs. In order to provide Federal assistance, you are
hereby authorized to allocate from funds available for these
purposes such amounts as you find necessary for Federal emergency
assistance and administrative expenses.
Further, you are authorized to make changes to this declaration
for the approved assistance to the extent allowable under the
Stafford Act.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice
that pursuant to the authority vested in the Administrator, Department
of Homeland Security, under Executive Order 12148, as amended, Gerard
M. Stolar, of FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal Coordinating
Officer for this declared emergency.
The following areas of the State of Louisiana have been designated
as adversely affected by this declared emergency:
The parishes of Avoyelles, Ascension, Assumption, Catahoula,
Concordia, East Carroll, Iberia, Iberville, LaSalle, Madison, Pointe
Coupee, East Baton Rouge, St. Charles, St. James, St. John, St.
Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, Tensas, Terrebonne, West Baton Rouge,
and West Feliciana for emergency protective measures (Category B),
limited to direct Federal assistance, under the Public Assistance
program.
The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers
(CFDA) are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030,
Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis
Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, Disaster
Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance
Grant; 97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to Individuals and
Households in Presidentially Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049,
Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance--Disaster Housing
Operations for Individuals and Households; 97.050, Presidentially
Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals and Households--Other
Needs; 97.036, Disaster Grants--Public Assistance (Presidentially
Declared Disasters); 97.039, Hazard Mitigation Grant.
Dated: June 3, 2011.
W. Craig Fugate,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2011-14362 Filed 6-9-11; 8:45 am]
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